permatorium

[victor steinbok]

I thought, it might be the place to get your very /last/ haircut.

VS-)

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> permatorium:  A hair salon where one can get styled like Tom Brady.
>
> Joel
>
> At 5/12/2012 03:22 AM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> > From WaPo fact-checker:
> >
> >http://goo.gl/GKsFR
> >>The president's opponents have accused him of stunting the economic
> >>recovery with a barrage of harmful new regulations ranging from a
> >>supposed "permatorium" on offshore oil drilling to stricter rules
> >>aimed at reducing farm dust -- neither of which has actually taken
> >>effect during Obama's term.
> >
> >The same context has seen the metaphorical use of "tsunami" by Rep.
> >Issa. (as in "regulatory tsunami") It's not a singular incident, but
> >it's still somewhat unusual.
> >
> >VS-)
>

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